diff --git a/dev-libs/log4cplus/Manifest b/dev-libs/log4cplus/Manifest
index 8e20108ecbd8f..013f46dc6b8cd 100644
--- a/dev-libs/log4cplus/Manifest
+++ b/dev-libs/log4cplus/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST log4cplus-1.1.2.tar.bz2 541761 SHA256 c46d56c96873dcb525791b5ea639d1415e74b1de99d51b657336cb6ebb72ed93 SHA512 a3bb619a0c005c63b533fa95fafe6c772dfc1b85f9b9556264b75a458398b81c48c17813ea04d07e3ea902f3f5f604b59dac7922412c5d0e0339200a453515b7 WHIRLPOOL a5b5f35b970150677f3336b954fb0ceac74517ae620427908f2d93108f09021ccdbf58a4044cfa51178a6624dff88833d0ac4f6c52136441310535bb0d79a264
 DIST log4cplus-1.1.3-rc7.tar.bz2 562969 SHA256 614bfd8a2e88510f7fa497b4aa12e763aa05cf0771d06284db385e5fd9fda5bb SHA512 6854a966dfd5a2b807778e34957ea33c43a340b8be71a1a989941ec6c6fdc22d181dc2f0bb0e87910c77417a9f5c4f07d4fbd8f13eadffe82adef10a1e00ef02 WHIRLPOOL 457cbd540508094450f363656964c80fc66a2cc9be887605c73001431bbff04ac4cdee5d0fc22ece86b5b7760e120eecffd9a129e95ad0c174ca6ace7c944e01
+DIST log4cplus-1.2.0.tar.bz2 629119 SHA256 680cc7a8652384e3cb387feac1794d83c8cda6a038ca4e761dfa6a11687a63b9 SHA512 2c3f16645051a230f9ec9a6ac689421efc4b51d5f40cb772e552bd199d2ad13c39d7e577cc63d51617555941412da166a6cda8861ee219154a953d9926aae626 WHIRLPOOL 3a4d1cbacd4b033b6d6ec6cd9ff8439e5c214e444588b62b77eafd4c5d542f787eb216601f7f66b73fd90bec15ce1784e6819d828207e8693d881f8b12c212f1
diff --git a/dev-libs/log4cplus/log4cplus-1.2.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/log4cplus/log4cplus-1.2.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8ad20f852616d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/log4cplus/log4cplus-1.2.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=6
+
+DESCRIPTION="C++ port of the Log for Java (log4j) logging library"
+HOMEPAGE="http://log4cplus.sourceforge.net/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/project/${PN}/${PN}-stable/${PV}/${P}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="|| ( Apache-2.0 BSD-2 )"
+SLOT="0/1.2-5"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="iconv qt4 threads working-locale working-c-locale"
+REQUIRED_USE="?? ( iconv working-locale working-c-locale )"
+
+RDEPEND="iconv? ( virtual/libiconv )
+	qt4? ( dev-qt/qtcore:4 )"
+DEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig
+	${RDEPEND}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf \
+		--disable-static \
+		$(use_enable threads) \
+		$(use_with iconv) \
+		$(use_with working-locale) \
+		$(use_with working-c-locale) \
+		$(use_with qt4 qt)
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	cd tests/ || die
+
+	local t
+	for t in appender customloglevel fileappender filter \
+	 hierarchy loglog ndc ostream patternlayout performance priority \
+	 propertyconfig timeformat; do
+		einfo "Running test \"${t}_test\""
+		pushd "${t}_test/" >/dev/null || die
+		"${S}"/${t}_test || die "Running ${t}_test failed!"
+		popd >/dev/null || die
+	done
+
+	if use threads; then
+		for t in configandwatch thread; do
+			einfo "Running test \"${t}_test\""
+			pushd "${t}_test/" >/dev/null || die
+			"${S}"/${t}_test || die "Running ${t}_test failed!"
+			popd >/dev/null || die
+		done
+	fi
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+	dodoc docs/unicode.txt
+
+	# package provides .pc files
+	find "${D}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}